Earthgym ~ Primal, Practical & Playful Ways to Strengthen Our Bodies & Learn from the Earth – Sunday 5/5

Primal, practical, playful and purposeful, Earthgym is a great extension of one’s yoga, martial arts or other movement/meditative practices. As our Earthgym is everywhere, you can use this practice with its simple nature tools in the wild, city parks, and/or your backyard to easily tap into your aliveness, creativity and joyous connection to one of our greatest teachers, Mother Earth. Join us for this full day workshop on Sunday May 5, 2019 from 10a – 4p at Two Rivers Yoga Studio in Carnation, WA.

Wild Wandering & Wild Food ~ Plant Medicine Class Incorporating Qigong & Springtime Nourishing Practices

It’s spring – time of lessening yin and and growing yang. So it’s a perfect time get outside, play and nourish our growing qi with wild foods, qigong and the ancient arts of free and easy wandering. That’s why we’re offering our next seasonal Plant Medicine & Qigong class called Wild Wandering & Wild Food on Saturday April 27 from 9:30a-4:00p. Come join us to optimize your and your family’s health in the springtime! 🙂

Deep Nourishing: Winter Roots ~ Plant Medicine Class Incorporating Tonic Herbs, Super Foods and Qigong

It’s winter – time of extreme yin and nourishing our roots. So it’s a perfect time to learn about plant medicines, including tonics and superfoods, and qigong and meditation practices that do just that!! That’s why we’re offering our next seasonal Plant Medicine class called Deep Nourishing: Winter Roots on Saturday January 19 from 9:30a-4p. Come join us to optimize your and your family’s health in the winter months! 🙂

Plant Medicine – 1-Day Fall Class on Immunity & Staying Healthy! :) Sat. 11/10

Let’s learn about plants and how their medicine can keep us healthy and strengthen our immune system!! This is our first of a series of seasonal Plant Medicine and Nourishing Life Classes held on Saturday, November 10th from 9:30-4ish. In this class, entitled Optimum Wellness and Immunity During the Fall, we’ll: learn how to keep ourselves healthy during cold and flu season (Yay!); learn how to make remedies with local forest plants and simple ingredients in our kitchen (so empowering!!); make some herbal infusions, a tincture, and our very own cough medicine to take home! (Fun and good medicine for the whole family!); learn about our immune system from an energetic and holistic point of view based on Chinese Medicine. (way cool!!:)); and gain simple concepts, acupressure points and exercises to increase our vitality and strengthen our immunity to stay healthy (and they’re fun! :))

The Wonder of Wandering ~ Cascadia NW Festival Workshop

Come join me at Cascadia NW Arts & Music Festival at Masonic Park off the Mountain Loop Hwy!!! This is a super duper fun nature and family-friendly event with lots of amazing trees, a river to swim and play in, phenomenal dance music and performances, tea houses, yum yum food carts extraordinaire, creative customs and parades, cozy camping amongst the trees, and lots of AWESOME workshops to attend, including the Wonder of Wandering ~ Imagination Rocks on Sunday 7/29 10-11:30 a.m.! 🙂

Staffs & Hammers of the Wise Wild Women

Do you love forests?  Do you love to dance?  Do you enjoy the mystery of alchemizing beauty, wisdom and wildness through our bodies?  This is the heart of the practices of Qigong, Earthgym and Ritual!  Learn a nourishing qigong warm-up and open your qi flow to activate your body’s wisdom.  Using talisman tools of Nordic women ancestors—staffs and iron hammers—we discover fundamental movements/katas, developing rhythm, rapport, and repetition, and end by entering into the gateway and alchemy of ritual.  All fitness levels are welcome.  Create a ritual of celebration and transformation to ripple your blessings out across our Lands.